[Sca-cooks] OT OOP Russian cake question

Daniel Myers edoard at medievalcookery.com
Thu Dec 20 20:33:55 PST 2007


On Dec 20, 2007, at 11:26 PM, Bronwynmgn at aol.com wrote:

> I have a student this year who is Russian - her family has only  
> been in the
> US for a year - and her mother sent her classroom staff a  
> wonderful  cake for
> Christmas.  Her mother does not speak much English and we have no   
> idea what
> this is, but it's yummy!
>
> It is many layers (at least 10) of very thin pastry of some sort   
> alternating
> with a cream sort of filling.  The pastry looks sort of like   
> graham crackers
> and is about the same thickness, but is not as sweet and is  much  
> softer and
> moister.  I do think there are crushed graham crackers or   
> something similar
> on top.  The filling looks more like vanilla pudding than   
> anything, but I was
> getting a slightly tangy taste that makes me think it might  either be
> sour-cream based or have a small amount of lemon or something in   
> it.  No blatantly
> obvious spicing.
>
> Anyone have any idea what this might be, or better yet a recipe?


Sounds like a dobosh torte.

Google yields up a lot of links.  The first one I checked had a recipe.
http://www.jewish-food.org/recipes/doboshto.htm

- Doc


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299. Take Auence, an late hem boyle, than take it owt an let it kele,  
an temper it with almaun mylke, and serue it forth in a dysshe, an  
bakon y-boylyd in a-nother dysshe.  [The Boke of Swyllyng]
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